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ISSN 2581-8023

The coming decade will be a defining moment for India as its urban areas are estimated to constitute around 40 per cent or 600 million of its total population by 2030. According to the High Powered Executive Committee (HPEC), around Rs 23 lakh crores is required over 2015–2030 for India’s urban transport infrastructure. The recently announced Green Urban Mobility Scheme (GUMS) expects to invest around Rs 70,000 crores over 2018–2023 on sustainable transport.

The central government has initiated missions and schemes to invest in urban transport and infrastructure; and created indicators and service level benchmarks to establish a city’s baseline and goal for improvement.

While there is momentum by different levels of government in addressing women’s safety in public transport, urban transport investments are largely gender blind with a limited understanding of the interrelationships between gender and transport inequities. Sustainable urban development will remain elusive without integrating women and girls’ safety, comfort, convenience and affordability in urban transport.

Ultimately, transportation is the fulcrum that allows women to participate in the workforce, which can create a societal shift to transform the entire world economy. We need more participation of women in Rail & Transport sectors.

In this edition, we have covered in-depth analysis on gender sensitive public transport system and Women’s participation in Rail Transport in India and how can government fill the key gap in urban transport literature in India. We have talked with leading women such as Manjula Vinjamuri, Commissioner, Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT), Karnataka, Mala Ramachandran & Sathya Kumaran, Cofounders of Kaleidoscope.

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Mamta Shah

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